Yeah but the problem is that while they could make circuits in the screen, they certainly can't duplicate chipmaking control, efficiency and accuracy on the flexible substrate. So yes, you could have your next phone rollable, if you would accept a 6 Mhz cpu with 2 Mb ram.
Quite frankly, whatever the reason you support Iran's actions, you cannot seriously deny the left is providing material support to it's genocidal intentions. That's in addition to the open sabotage the left commits to the opposing camp.
Good, or even bad intentions don't matter. Results matter. The real world matters. Almost everyone in Israel thinks they will be fighting a war next year, and they think the consequences of losing that war will be another holocaust. I think they're right, and, quite frankly, it is in large part thanks to material support from lefties in America and Europe to people who've publicly sworn to no end to eradicate them.
As I said, intentions don't matter. The result matters. The fear of the people of Israel, which only a total moron would deny is justified, and the global war that is being created against them and their country by your party, that is real. That is reality. That is your fault.
Still, a state 100% controlled by fundamentalist christians would be a hell of a lot more pleasant to live in than an islamic dictatorship.
There'd be universities, science, painting, singing, dancing, alcohol,... everything you could possibly want, even if they'd have to abide by a few rules. It would be between "survivable" and "comfortable" in my book.
In a muslim dictatorship, there are only the 2 deserts : the real desert, the destroyed remains of the country, and the desert of the mind. There won't be books, there wouldn't be science, there won't be no singing, no dancing, no alcohol, totally sex-segregated police states with slavery, nothing but total emptiness and destruction. I fully understand why muslims use suicide tactics. It can only be a relief.
Let the message to everyone be clear : threaten (credibly) murder, mayhem and violence if anything on facebook (such as gays, Jews,... what have you) offends you. The net results, media, lefties worldwide will support you for being victimized (presumably by those evil gays and Jews you want to kill ?)
In today's society it has become necessary to shut down the part of the mind that handles empathy.
In other societies things were so "totally" different, right :
This is what it lead to yesterday in our own society And let's not forget America's "neutrality" that had oh-so-great results, in that same part of history Here's another culture that shut down empathy and levied a "child tax" (yes literally) on people it conquered, why not ask a muslim about this once ? How about the late middle ages ? Where empathy with either pox or plague victims was basically a death sentence (just to introduce one instance in which it wasn't humans that caused the suffering in this list) And that's just for starters, how about the Mayans who cut out the heart of random slaves, after torturing them for a whole month ? How about the muslim ("mongol") invasion in India, an incursion lasting nearly 1000 years, with an average of 5-6 genocides per year, for a total death toll of at least several hundred million ? Same goes for other places How about the pre-Christian Carthagens who ate their own children in order to ask the Gods for military and/or economic success ? How about the "hash-hassins" (assasins), a muslim sect that kidnapped young boys, then let them enjoy themselves in a fake "72 virgins" paradise for a few weeks, and then sent them on suicide missions against defenseless civilians (part of the Iraqi resistence against the US did the same, kidnapping children, drugging them, and then sending them on suicide missions) ? How about the Gaia worshippers who buried innocent young women alive to ensure a good harvest ? How about the worshippers of Juno, which were women that had themselves fucked by "priests" while a black slave (sometimes dozens) was getting his throat cut, the blood emptied into the bath while they were... ahem... enjoying themselves How about the muslim black gold trade, that lasted 1000 years and killed at the very least 300 million black "slaves", far, far more than any European or American state ever dreamed of ?
History, I'm afraid, seems to indicate that empathy only does well for very limited portions of history, if at all.
It must be clear to anyone that it would be supremely stupid for a government to mandate (or outlaw) a popup blocker, so I don't think it's a good option for.sa to start "advising" people on using popup blockers (besides, if a govt. started doing that, that blocker would become totally ineffective before you can say "imvu")
And can one read your post accurately that for a regular user, using just his normally bought windows pc with ie7 (or 8 in the best case), avoiding porn online isn't possible ?
I would agree with this government that the de-facto forcing of porn on users exists and it is not at all very nice, in fact I would quite like it for that to become a crime. Does that mean I'm in favor of a country-wide ban on pornography ? No, I'm perfectly content for people to watch whatever they want, however they want, in the privacy of their own home.
I do not think anyone on the internet really gets the choice whether to watch porn or not. It would be great if that *was* the case.
Make commercials for movies, sunglasses, whatever, and force me to watch them in trade for "content" all you want. But not porn, nor anything that could be understood to be porn. (so porn-like things like the imvu "instant messenger", or the generally less-than-subte commercials for "dating sites")
Just in case you don't feel like reading the useless wad of text that is the parent post, let me summarize the "oil-replacing options":
1) rebuild the US in an area the size of a small island and use bikes and busses 2) use wood instead. But without using trees. You know, so we can live like people in Haiti or Rwanda
And the author has the nerve to say it is "surprising" we haven't already done this : clearly there's a conspiracy preventing it.
It's what evolution theory states every species is always doing, of course.
Discover a resource (ie. successfully "mutate") use it to capacity breed over capacity, without stopping for breath 90% or-so of the species dies off due to resource shortage goto 1
There are alternatives to all of those products. If the oil industry wasn't so heavily involved in politics, the absurd regulatory structure that makes oil the best way to do just about anything would not exist, and alternative methods of producing many goods would come about.
And, pray tell, what are these "alternatives" ? Let's take the simplest, most obvious application of oil : transportation energy.
Which energy source can, with better economics, replace oil as a transportation fuel ? (better, since you say it's a conspiracy "holding us back", which only makes sense if there's a better alternative)
And let's not forget that there are 12 "perpetuum mobile" patents (and that's just counting the U.S.). Just because a "dormant" patent exist, doesn't mean they have a working device.
It's amazing that ANY corporation can drill for oil since NONE have stepped up to the plate with a viable solution.
What's really amazing is that someone types a message like that on a keyboard... made of oil. Sitting in a room, painted by oil. Someone says that after eating food, harvested by oil-using machinery, grown by dropping oil over plants. Someone who walks, over oil (the road is made of oil, in case you don't know), over to the supermarket, constructed from nothing but oil and a bit of metal, melted and delivered by using oil. In that supermarket you buy food, which isn't infected with disease due to being packaged... in oil.
The only reason it is possible to keep about 80% of the US population... well alive... is oil.
Hypocrisy. Truly and completely off the scale hypocrisy.
Quite frankly, since asking the US not to use oil is asking a democracy to kill off some 80% of it's population (at least, probably more), utterly devastating the entire U.S. coast, and even inland, would probably be considered worth it by the vast majority, even for just a one month extension of the oil supply. Anyone who prefers life over death should do so. And once it becomes clear that this is exactly the blood sacrifice "green" demands, it is what will happen*. Lying about it only works as long as all the bellies are sufficiently round.
There I've said the obvious, inconvenient, truth, and the obvious fact that even if BP deployed soldiers and re-started prohibition, we still probably wouldn't punish them. Unfortunately, for good reason. You can downmod me into oblivion now.
* ironically, in the original gaia cultus, the early greek one, people were also sacrificed. Buried alive. Seems somehow appropriate.
Given that the Maunder minimum led to global cooling, killing off (every last man, woman and child) in the -then- populated Greenland, almost a million people, and caused a number of famines everywhere else, I sure hope so.
The wikipedia entry here does not do justice to the horror stories in a few remaining journals of the people living in cities upon which the ice advanced a little more every year, awaiting help that never came. It did not just "not come" for a week or a month, but for a century and a half. The journals literally end mid-sentence with the author describing how it's "suddenly warm", after having lost animals, the city, his family and finally his life, in a process taking years.
Since every other social study says that people with degrees flock together, living even in the same neighborhoods. Usually these studies decry how "terribly unfair" this is. Still it explains perfectly well what's happening here.
Ironically, this means that, as a university graduate, you're probably better of in one of the lesser density cities.
And frankly I resent the direct correlation made : "smart" != "university graduate". One does not imply the other, in any direction.
VMWare's support redefines "non-responsive", and their products come out with bugs that makes you wonder if they've ever run them even once themselves. Their pricing is so ridiculous you can say without blushing "I'd rather have a mercedes". And it's yearly, so you can easily have a quite well-paid full-time engineer on staff instead of VMWare enterprise.
And this is just one example of a bug. If you look at the lists of bugs that prevented windows booting, caused extreme slowdowns or simply made the management unreacheable, there's no shortage of such bugs at all.
Of course you could argue that with all other products if you lock yourself out of the console you've done it yourself, but still. And of course KVM has no shortage of absurd slowdown bugs (having run it, I do wonder how anyone dares call this monster a triumph of kernel hackers).
Everyone screws up. But why don't I leave you with a bit of VMWare advice on running your server:
"Customers should not stop virtual machines. Keep virtual machines going until we release a patch," Niemar had said. "You can also move the clock backwards on the server."
Our internal tests threw out VirtualBox (and VMware Server) as options after very simlpe IOmeter benchmarks. They were both dog-slow compared with ESX.
Under which versions was this evaluation made ? Vsphere 3 or 4 ? VirtualBox 2 ? 3 ?
Actually ESX is a hypervisor that runs on an old redhat distro last time I checked. Given the featureset of the newer VMWare's it would amaze me if half of them (specifically the "new" hardware support) isn't just the result of a linux kernel upgrade.
Have you found a lot of benchmarks online ? I've never seen more than a few, and I would require relatively recent versions of the hypervisor (vSphere 4 vs VirtualBox 3.1 or 3.2 preferably) to be compared to find such benchmarks relevant.
But I'd appreciate a few links with recent benchmarks if you have them. A simple google (VirtualBox versus ESX is not yielding much, except forum discussions. Not that they aren't interesting, but I'd appreciate a few raw, hard numbers)
Is ESX so much faster than VirtualBox ? In my experience VirtualBox beats VMWare in quite a few areas (though, sadly, not in networking). And the most recent version, 3.2, with fully asynchronous I/O widened the gap further.
It's almost to the point that having virtualbox run a VM in a file on ext2 beats VMWare running the same VM with it's "partition filesystem" in normal setups.
We're talking extremely directional communication with only tiny amounts of interference very close to one of the tranceivers (ie. the one on the ground). This is not a hard problem.
The hard problem in wireless transmission is obstacles "mid-flight" (so to speak). Because the earth is round, and thus there is a "mountain" between any two points anywhere on the planet, and that the highest point of this mountain tends to be... smack in the middle (the exact place you can do the most damage to a signal).
Fortunately we're not in avatar and there are no mountains floating miles above the surface, so once you clear buildings you have a clear shot to any satellite floating above.
And since athmospheric drag in LEO is not zero, there is hardly any space debris to destroy satellites. The only potential (realistic) colissinos are with other satellite constellations, and therefore by definition any satellite in LEO has a working propulsion system (or it would not be able to resist athmospheric drag).
If you keep poking the beehive, you'll get stung eventually. A lot of these people are pissed off at American foreign policy because it affects them directly...
If you truly believe that sort of idiocy, do NOT, and I repeat do NOT check how the middle east became muslim in the first place.
And God forbid you check the history of, say, Zanzibar, Turkey, or any other African or northern muslim base.
It could shatter your fantasy of a worldview with most impolite definitiveness.
You do realise transatlantic and transpacific cable have basically the same business model, right ? They've gone broke at least 5 times in the last 10 years or so.
Besides, even intra-US fiber is not exactly a goldmine of profits for their owners.
But this thing is a very low earth orbit sattellite. It has a very fast shifting orbit, and it has much more athmospheric drag (though, granted, still not all that much). The orbit is "close" (certainly in space terms), low-latency, but a bit of a bitch to navigate in.
If we could deploy 100 of these quickly and cheaply we could have fast broadband with tiny latencies everywhere on the planet, from New York to Antarctica (worst case you'd need a roof antenna, and given performance of iridium handsets that's not necessary except in highrises in city centers). Since you have clear line of sight to just about any location on the planet, very high bandwidth applications are within the realm of possibility. Inter-satellite links can use the exact same technology used on fibers (except for the need to aim them), and thus COTS components will get you an inter-sattellite bandwith of 160 Gbit per transmitter, with no real limits on the number of transmitters.
This is the one technology that truly has the potential of getting high-bandwidth links into outlying rural areas.
LEO and this type of technology could be the future of the internet. Unstoppable, unfilterable, available anywhere and anytime (because of the possibility of having extreme directionality in the tranceivers, the only real option you have is taking out the satellite, you can't even find who's using this internet connection. Iran and other countries' censorship would be thoroughly fucked), usable with cola can sized devices costing $150 able to link up to playboy online right under the nose of Ahmadinejad. Able to tell any Chinese what happened at Tiananmen, and provide that same porn to increase the customer base.
And people studying either in North Africa, the Middle East, Iraq or even muslim schools and mosques in America get taught that if you kill "enough" Americans you get to fuck 72 virgins for etnernity. (I asked an 8-year-old "student" what exactly constituted "enough" dead Americans, but he didn't knew. He was going to ask though. He did seem to take it very seriously, as anyone would at that age).
Since we all know what's being done about this (ie. nothing), why aren't you guys tolerant to Texans ? Are you racists ? Isn't the whole point of not being racist that everyone gets to do the same ?
Why does one group get to do this and others not ? Can we please stop pretending that "Jesus loves us all, and Darwin doesn't" is the biggest problem being taught in schools today ?
Otherwise you're just a bunch of whiny crybabies. Either react against everyone, or shut up.
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I found a drawing of a windows 3.0 on a wall somewhere in the city,
Yeah but the problem is that while they could make circuits in the screen, they certainly can't duplicate chipmaking control, efficiency and accuracy on the flexible substrate. So yes, you could have your next phone rollable, if you would accept a 6 Mhz cpu with 2 Mb ram.
You could have fooled me.
Quite frankly, whatever the reason you support Iran's actions, you cannot seriously deny the left is providing material support to it's genocidal intentions. That's in addition to the open sabotage the left commits to the opposing camp.
Good, or even bad intentions don't matter. Results matter. The real world matters. Almost everyone in Israel thinks they will be fighting a war next year, and they think the consequences of losing that war will be another holocaust. I think they're right, and, quite frankly, it is in large part thanks to material support from lefties in America and Europe to people who've publicly sworn to no end to eradicate them.
As I said, intentions don't matter. The result matters. The fear of the people of Israel, which only a total moron would deny is justified, and the global war that is being created against them and their country by your party, that is real. That is reality. That is your fault.
And the consequences will be on your conscience.
Have you read the title ? The whole point was that muslims attack, and that you appease them.
And the real problem I have with that is simple : we all know ... it will only lead to more attacks.
Still, a state 100% controlled by fundamentalist christians would be a hell of a lot more pleasant to live in than an islamic dictatorship.
There'd be universities, science, painting, singing, dancing, alcohol, ... everything you could possibly want, even if they'd have to abide by a few rules. It would be between "survivable" and "comfortable" in my book.
In a muslim dictatorship, there are only the 2 deserts : the real desert, the destroyed remains of the country, and the desert of the mind. There won't be books, there wouldn't be science, there won't be no singing, no dancing, no alcohol, totally sex-segregated police states with slavery, nothing but total emptiness and destruction. I fully understand why muslims use suicide tactics. It can only be a relief.
violence versus free speech
violence : 1
free speech : 0
Let the message to everyone be clear : threaten (credibly) murder, mayhem and violence if anything on facebook (such as gays, Jews, ... what have you) offends you. The net results, media, lefties worldwide will support you for being victimized (presumably by those evil gays and Jews you want to kill ?)
In today's society it has become necessary to shut down the part of the mind that handles empathy.
In other societies things were so "totally" different, right :
This is what it lead to yesterday in our own society ... ahem ... enjoying themselves
And let's not forget America's "neutrality" that had oh-so-great results, in that same part of history
Here's another culture that shut down empathy and levied a "child tax" (yes literally) on people it conquered, why not ask a muslim about this once ?
How about the late middle ages ? Where empathy with either pox or plague victims was basically a death sentence (just to introduce one instance in which it wasn't humans that caused the suffering in this list)
And that's just for starters, how about the Mayans who cut out the heart of random slaves, after torturing them for a whole month ?
How about the muslim ("mongol") invasion in India, an incursion lasting nearly 1000 years, with an average of 5-6 genocides per year, for a total death toll of at least several hundred million ? Same goes for other places
How about the pre-Christian Carthagens who ate their own children in order to ask the Gods for military and/or economic success ?
How about the "hash-hassins" (assasins), a muslim sect that kidnapped young boys, then let them enjoy themselves in a fake "72 virgins" paradise for a few weeks, and then sent them on suicide missions against defenseless civilians (part of the Iraqi resistence against the US did the same, kidnapping children, drugging them, and then sending them on suicide missions) ?
How about the Gaia worshippers who buried innocent young women alive to ensure a good harvest ?
How about the worshippers of Juno, which were women that had themselves fucked by "priests" while a black slave (sometimes dozens) was getting his throat cut, the blood emptied into the bath while they were
How about the muslim black gold trade, that lasted 1000 years and killed at the very least 300 million black "slaves", far, far more than any European or American state ever dreamed of ?
History, I'm afraid, seems to indicate that empathy only does well for very limited portions of history, if at all.
It must be clear to anyone that it would be supremely stupid for a government to mandate (or outlaw) a popup blocker, so I don't think it's a good option for .sa to start "advising" people on using popup blockers (besides, if a govt. started doing that, that blocker would become totally ineffective before you can say "imvu")
And can one read your post accurately that for a regular user, using just his normally bought windows pc with ie7 (or 8 in the best case), avoiding porn online isn't possible ?
I would agree with this government that the de-facto forcing of porn on users exists and it is not at all very nice, in fact I would quite like it for that to become a crime. Does that mean I'm in favor of a country-wide ban on pornography ? No, I'm perfectly content for people to watch whatever they want, however they want, in the privacy of their own home.
I do not think anyone on the internet really gets the choice whether to watch porn or not. It would be great if that *was* the case.
Make commercials for movies, sunglasses, whatever, and force me to watch them in trade for "content" all you want. But not porn, nor anything that could be understood to be porn. (so porn-like things like the imvu "instant messenger", or the generally less-than-subte commercials for "dating sites")
Yeah but still, you'd have to admit that if anyone wanted to be on the internet and not "get" to look at a boatload of porn ... that'd be kinda hard.
Let's be honest here.
Just in case you don't feel like reading the useless wad of text that is the parent post, let me summarize the "oil-replacing options":
1) rebuild the US in an area the size of a small island and use bikes and busses
2) use wood instead. But without using trees. You know, so we can live like people in Haiti or Rwanda
And the author has the nerve to say it is "surprising" we haven't already done this : clearly there's a conspiracy preventing it.
Come on, potash is dropped over plants, not oil.
Euhm you might want to check what fertilizer is made of, specifically where exactly U.S. agricultural plants find their nitrogen.
... roughly 6-7 dollars a gallon and there hasn't been any noticable drop in driving...
Compared to the U.S. there is certainly a noticable drop in driving.
Exactly.
It's what evolution theory states every species is always doing, of course.
Discover a resource (ie. successfully "mutate")
use it to capacity
breed over capacity, without stopping for breath
90% or-so of the species dies off due to resource shortage
goto 1
There are alternatives to all of those products. If the oil industry wasn't so heavily involved in politics, the absurd regulatory structure that makes oil the best way to do just about anything would not exist, and alternative methods of producing many goods would come about.
And, pray tell, what are these "alternatives" ? Let's take the simplest, most obvious application of oil : transportation energy.
Which energy source can, with better economics, replace oil as a transportation fuel ? (better, since you say it's a conspiracy "holding us back", which only makes sense if there's a better alternative)
And let's not forget that there are 12 "perpetuum mobile" patents (and that's just counting the U.S.). Just because a "dormant" patent exist, doesn't mean they have a working device.
It's amazing that ANY corporation can drill for oil since NONE have stepped up to the plate with a viable solution.
What's really amazing is that someone types a message like that on a keyboard ... made of oil. Sitting in a room, painted by oil. Someone says that after eating food, harvested by oil-using machinery, grown by dropping oil over plants. Someone who walks, over oil (the road is made of oil, in case you don't know), over to the supermarket, constructed from nothing but oil and a bit of metal, melted and delivered by using oil. In that supermarket you buy food, which isn't infected with disease due to being packaged ... in oil.
The only reason it is possible to keep about 80% of the US population ... well alive ... is oil.
Hypocrisy. Truly and completely off the scale hypocrisy.
Quite frankly, since asking the US not to use oil is asking a democracy to kill off some 80% of it's population (at least, probably more), utterly devastating the entire U.S. coast, and even inland, would probably be considered worth it by the vast majority, even for just a one month extension of the oil supply. Anyone who prefers life over death should do so. And once it becomes clear that this is exactly the blood sacrifice "green" demands, it is what will happen*. Lying about it only works as long as all the bellies are sufficiently round.
There I've said the obvious, inconvenient, truth, and the obvious fact that even if BP deployed soldiers and re-started prohibition, we still probably wouldn't punish them. Unfortunately, for good reason. You can downmod me into oblivion now.
* ironically, in the original gaia cultus, the early greek one, people were also sacrificed. Buried alive. Seems somehow appropriate.
Given that the Maunder minimum led to global cooling, killing off (every last man, woman and child) in the -then- populated Greenland, almost a million people, and caused a number of famines everywhere else, I sure hope so.
The wikipedia entry here does not do justice to the horror stories in a few remaining journals of the people living in cities upon which the ice advanced a little more every year, awaiting help that never came. It did not just "not come" for a week or a month, but for a century and a half. The journals literally end mid-sentence with the author describing how it's "suddenly warm", after having lost animals, the city, his family and finally his life, in a process taking years.
Since every other social study says that people with degrees flock together, living even in the same neighborhoods. Usually these studies decry how "terribly unfair" this is. Still it explains perfectly well what's happening here.
Ironically, this means that, as a university graduate, you're probably better of in one of the lesser density cities.
And frankly I resent the direct correlation made : "smart" != "university graduate". One does not imply the other, in any direction.
You are working for VMWare.
VMWare's support redefines "non-responsive", and their products come out with bugs that makes you wonder if they've ever run them even once themselves. Their pricing is so ridiculous you can say without blushing "I'd rather have a mercedes". And it's yearly, so you can easily have a quite well-paid full-time engineer on staff instead of VMWare enterprise.
And this is just one example of a bug. If you look at the lists of bugs that prevented windows booting, caused extreme slowdowns or simply made the management unreacheable, there's no shortage of such bugs at all.
Of course you could argue that with all other products if you lock yourself out of the console you've done it yourself, but still. And of course KVM has no shortage of absurd slowdown bugs (having run it, I do wonder how anyone dares call this monster a triumph of kernel hackers).
Everyone screws up. But why don't I leave you with a bit of VMWare advice on running your server :
"Customers should not stop virtual machines. Keep virtual machines going until we release a patch," Niemar had said. "You can also move the clock backwards on the server."
Our internal tests threw out VirtualBox (and VMware Server) as options after very simlpe IOmeter benchmarks. They were both dog-slow compared with ESX.
Under which versions was this evaluation made ? Vsphere 3 or 4 ? VirtualBox 2 ? 3 ?
Actually ESX is a hypervisor that runs on an old redhat distro last time I checked. Given the featureset of the newer VMWare's it would amaze me if half of them (specifically the "new" hardware support) isn't just the result of a linux kernel upgrade.
Have you found a lot of benchmarks online ? I've never seen more than a few, and I would require relatively recent versions of the hypervisor (vSphere 4 vs VirtualBox 3.1 or 3.2 preferably) to be compared to find such benchmarks relevant.
But I'd appreciate a few links with recent benchmarks if you have them. A simple google (VirtualBox versus ESX is not yielding much, except forum discussions. Not that they aren't interesting, but I'd appreciate a few raw, hard numbers)
Is ESX so much faster than VirtualBox ? In my experience VirtualBox beats VMWare in quite a few areas (though, sadly, not in networking). And the most recent version, 3.2, with fully asynchronous I/O widened the gap further.
It's almost to the point that having virtualbox run a VM in a file on ext2 beats VMWare running the same VM with it's "partition filesystem" in normal setups.
Given that Iridium phones operate perfectly well in a snow storm ... what weather conditions are so very detrimental to LEO communication if I may ask ?
We're talking extremely directional communication with only tiny amounts of interference very close to one of the tranceivers (ie. the one on the ground). This is not a hard problem.
The hard problem in wireless transmission is obstacles "mid-flight" (so to speak). Because the earth is round, and thus there is a "mountain" between any two points anywhere on the planet, and that the highest point of this mountain tends to be ... smack in the middle (the exact place you can do the most damage to a signal).
Fortunately we're not in avatar and there are no mountains floating miles above the surface, so once you clear buildings you have a clear shot to any satellite floating above.
And since athmospheric drag in LEO is not zero, there is hardly any space debris to destroy satellites. The only potential (realistic) colissinos are with other satellite constellations, and therefore by definition any satellite in LEO has a working propulsion system (or it would not be able to resist athmospheric drag).
If you keep poking the beehive, you'll get stung eventually. A lot of these people are pissed off at American foreign policy because it affects them directly ...
If you truly believe that sort of idiocy, do NOT, and I repeat do NOT check how the middle east became muslim in the first place.
And God forbid you check the history of, say, Zanzibar, Turkey, or any other African or northern muslim base.
It could shatter your fantasy of a worldview with most impolite definitiveness.
You do realise transatlantic and transpacific cable have basically the same business model, right ? They've gone broke at least 5 times in the last 10 years or so.
Besides, even intra-US fiber is not exactly a goldmine of profits for their owners.
But this thing is a very low earth orbit sattellite. It has a very fast shifting orbit, and it has much more athmospheric drag (though, granted, still not all that much). The orbit is "close" (certainly in space terms), low-latency, but a bit of a bitch to navigate in.
If we could deploy 100 of these quickly and cheaply we could have fast broadband with tiny latencies everywhere on the planet, from New York to Antarctica (worst case you'd need a roof antenna, and given performance of iridium handsets that's not necessary except in highrises in city centers). Since you have clear line of sight to just about any location on the planet, very high bandwidth applications are within the realm of possibility. Inter-satellite links can use the exact same technology used on fibers (except for the need to aim them), and thus COTS components will get you an inter-sattellite bandwith of 160 Gbit per transmitter, with no real limits on the number of transmitters.
This is the one technology that truly has the potential of getting high-bandwidth links into outlying rural areas.
LEO and this type of technology could be the future of the internet. Unstoppable, unfilterable, available anywhere and anytime (because of the possibility of having extreme directionality in the tranceivers, the only real option you have is taking out the satellite, you can't even find who's using this internet connection. Iran and other countries' censorship would be thoroughly fucked), usable with cola can sized devices costing $150 able to link up to playboy online right under the nose of Ahmadinejad. Able to tell any Chinese what happened at Tiananmen, and provide that same porn to increase the customer base.
And people studying either in North Africa, the Middle East, Iraq or even muslim schools and mosques in America get taught that if you kill "enough" Americans you get to fuck 72 virgins for etnernity. (I asked an 8-year-old "student" what exactly constituted "enough" dead Americans, but he didn't knew. He was going to ask though. He did seem to take it very seriously, as anyone would at that age).
Since we all know what's being done about this (ie. nothing), why aren't you guys tolerant to Texans ? Are you racists ? Isn't the whole point of not being racist that everyone gets to do the same ?
Why does one group get to do this and others not ? Can we please stop pretending that "Jesus loves us all, and Darwin doesn't" is the biggest problem being taught in schools today ?
Otherwise you're just a bunch of whiny crybabies. Either react against everyone, or shut up.